Clutton had interests in architecture, planes, keyboard instruments, and motorcars. As somewhat of a renaissance man of that era, Mr. He developed his own horological wonders but also often restored iconic pieces of a bygone era.Ĭecil “Sam” Clutton had a broad awareness of horology and was a renowned collector, expert, and patron of this fine craft. Daniels was an expert on the watch’s history and progress, paying particular attention to the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He was a practicing horologist with over 50 years of experience in watchmaking. The late British watchmaking genius is mainly in the horological vernacular as the inventor of the Co-Axial escapement. I hope that George Daniels needs no introduction to a watch lover. After all, we are talking about close to 500 years of watch history condensed into over 300 pages. I need to warn you that it is not an easy read, nor should it be. As such, it is a must for anyone interested in this subject. Watches - A Complete History of the Technical and Decorative Development of the Watch is an extensive reference work on general horological history. Yet, what these two fine gentlemen put together in 1965 is not only still relevant, but it also forms the basis of what horologists have since built upon. Rather, it is a book about timepieces, and mainly pocket watches at that. Watches by Cecil Clutton and George Daniels is not a novel or collection of poems. A close-to-60-year-old book should rarely be reprinted unless it’s a piece of classical literature.
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